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December 15, 2006 - Volume IV Issue 30
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Dear Elise,
Autodesk has a free software for you to try out...you can use it to export a DWG file from AutoCAD into another software called Impression to create a more artistic visualization of your design. Kind of like Napkin Sketch or Squiggle.

Architects and designers will probably enjoy playing around with this cool new tool. I find it slightly amusing that we have come full circle...we now are trying to emulate hand-drawings with our computers where thirty years ago we wanted to take our hand- drawings and make them more precise-looking and clean.

The Young Design Engineer's Project Competition is a web-based venue for senior mechanical engineering students to showcase work from their Capstone Project experience.

Launched in 1990 as the Young Design Engineer's Paper Competition, it premiers this year as a web- based contest updated to reflect the growing need for efficient global communication via the internet.

- $1000 cash award for winner, $500 cash award to (3) finalists
- Invitation to present at the IDETC 2007 with $500 travel allowance
- Receive exposure through review by industry and web posting
- Convert your senior design project into a contest entry with minimal effort

Jon Rodin requested a lisp routine...

Mtext allows you to set the color of the text within the text editor to be different from that of the mtext object. So, even though you might select all mtext and set the color to "bylayer", the color remains as assigned within the mtext.
I'm looking for a routine that changes the color of the mtext to bylayer without having to edit each mtext if 'hard' colored.

Interestingly enough, color-formatting in MTEXT adds some html-like characters inside your text value to define the character color or formatting. \\C indicates a color change followed by the color number.

I emailed Jon the code...he tweaked it and here it is for you to download. It is pretty basic code and assumes the text is all one color...if you have a paragraph in rainbow colors, the code won't work.


Elise Moss
Moss Designs